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2.  The male villain is portrayed as the dumb one. He is mostly physically described, as the playful and not serious one. The language used to describe him is coarser than what was used to describe the female. It suggests that females are displayed as the powerful one who manipulates and controls her male counterpart. Females are powerful and the intelligent ones, and males are the arm ornament.

3. After the initial descriptions in the first two paragraphs, Denby looses the playful descriptive tone and gains a more explanatory tone and introduces his argument, and develops a serious tone in companion with his playful sarcastic one.

4. The essay breaks because he really delves into the meat of his argument after his three paragraph introduction. It turns from intro into explanatory and he begins developing and defending his argument.

5. His essay answers the rhetorical questions by describing his opinion and supporting the fact that movies have created a reality that is our culture now, but qualifies his argument by stating that there are exceptions (of course) to the norm.

6. He established ethos and used it because he compared and analyzed a wide variety of films from different genres and different decades, yet they all supported whatever point he was trying to make.

7. His central argument is that movies have created and dictated a cultural norm for high schools. He also sets up the argument the cliché popular kids don’t succeed and that the geeks do, however he argues that much of the high school stereotype persona is a result of media influence over the years.

9. Denby ties that the “wounded” child typically gains artistic achievement and success because the movies depict their childhood stereotypical tormentor as ‘loser’ at the end of a novel, movie, etc. and the geeky picked upon child gains popularity and success. They control the media that is shown to children, and turn the tables on those who hurt them.

10. By saying the Columbine students who ended up killing teachers and students didn’t learn the lesson the geeks rule, he solidifies his argument over the power and control that movies have over people. Obviously those students had not watched enough movies to learn such an important life lesson.

11. The examples that go beyond genre bolsters his argument because it adds the layer of complexity to the issue, and that it is not cut and dry and black and white however, movies still have a huge impact on the behavior of students.

12. The most likely audience is high school students because it applies to them and appeals to them. Denby considers his audience because he uses examples and language and writing styles that appeal to younger audiences and that the younger audience can relate too. 

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